Democracy is misinforming about Cuba
July 19, 2021
Sometimes I think I don’t know if we have evolved at all. We have gone from dictatorships where information was hidden in the name of state security to “democracies” where false information is spread in the name of “freedom.”
It is enough to observe how, in the name of freedom and democracy that some ask for Cuba, the media and networks are being sown with lies and deceit. The Reuters agency itself titled an analysis of recent Cuban events thus: “Fake news muddies online waters during Cuba protests” (Fake news online muddies the waters during protests in Cuba.) Of course, Reuters drops the options that these fake news may be sown by the opposition or by the Cuban government. It would be the only case in history in which a government spreads false news that its ministers are fleeing and airs photos of massive demonstrations of support presenting them as opponents. Come on, a government sows false news against it.
Because one of the most spectacular falsehoods was to include images of demonstrations in support of the government and the revolution as protests against the government. Above them, the Argentine newspaper La Nación has a large headline “A massive and unprecedented protest in the streets surprises the Cuban regime”, but the image it includes is of a demonstration of support, yes, with a caption in small print that says “Defenders of the regime marched after a call from President Miguel Díaz-Canel.”
Likewise the newspaper El País It does not specify that this photo is of followers of the revolution as evidenced by carrying the flag of July 26, the guerrilla organization led by Fidel Castro. Incomplete information is also biased information.
In this image from La Sexta about news of opposition demonstrations and an interview with an opponent, the image that is also used is of demonstrators supporting the government with the flag of Fidel Castro’s guerrilla group. And, of course, as the general trend has been, it is not clear where the image is from.
If ever a photo of a demonstration of supporters of the revolution is reproduced, as in this one from The country, the image is limited to one person and the foot reads “a woman screams”. In other words, an isolated and unique case of support for the government, a single person who screams.
A Chilean television inserted an image of blood-wounded during the referendum in Catalonia in the news about the demonstrations in Havana. It is about the Mucho Gusto program, on the Mega channel.
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(Anyone who has followed "news" regarding Latin America and the Caribbean over the years learned about these tricks long ago. It has been going on a very, very long time, getting intense as far back as 1954, with the invasion of Guatemala, and the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz' progressive Presidency. It has been unrelenting. After the shock wears off, you become disgusted, even amused, slightly.)
